As a member of the Guild of One Name Studies (membership number 48210) I will try to help those looking for Eayrs connections.

UK Lines

My own branch of the Eayrs family comes from around the border of Lincolnshire and Northants. My current brickwall is George Eayrs, b. abt. 1766 in Castle Bytham, Lincs, England, and married to a Mary Fowler.

There are other Eayrs families in the same period and in the same general area, including two around Bourne (Thomas Eayrs, b. abt. 1773, m. Elizabeth Hopkinson) and Morton (Samuel Eayrs, b. abt 1759, m. Mary Christian), both also in Lincolnshire. (Click here for a map of Lincolnshire that shows these places - you may need to zoom in and out).

There are also pockets of Eayrs in Bedfordshire (see John Jackson Eayrs, b. abt. 1802, Amphill), Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, London and the Channel Isles which I have not yet been able to connect to any of the above.

The way forward ..

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Other countries

I have information on at least three immigrations into the United States (there are many more); the first via Northern Ireland in the early 18th Century (see William Eayrs, b. England abt. 1670), one from Brigstock, Northampton in 1882 (see here) and a third from Greetham, Rutland in 1849 (see here). Not all this information is currently on the website.

There are currently recently established Eayrs family members in Argentina. I also know of families that went out to Australia (see here), Canada (see here), New Zealand (see here and here) and South Africa (see here).

Note

This site excludes information about people born after 1905. I have also removed all notes, anecdotes and additional personal information from all entries.

What this means is that in many cases I have more data but am not making it publicly available. Please do contact me if you would like more information about these and living people, but I will only make this information available to proven members of the immediate family.